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The most common explanation is gene flow: Current Native Americans physically resemble their geographically close northeast Asian neighbors because they are descended from them, while earlier American populations, with other ancestors, were absorbed or displaced. This process could have involved a recent population expanding out of northeast Asia, replacing some existing populations and pushing others into less-productive environments and genetic obscurity.

This paragraph sums up why some American Indian activists would like to suppress such information. If this is true, then the American Indian isn't the "perfect victim"; he's just another conqueror.

Left-wing Indian activists have been working for years to portray the Indian as the perfect victim. They are mythologized as a people living in harmony with each other and with nature; that all was good until the evil White man arrived. In their myth, Paradise is lost in 1492. Stories of "others" get in the way of that tale.

If other populations pre-date the Indian, then what happened to them? If the Indians aren't the perfect beings who fell to the ravenous Whites, then perhaps they simply conquered the others. Many other peoples have done so throughout history.

But that spoils some good PR.

The Activists have a harder time begging political goodies if their clients aren't as angelic as they've been portrayed. Thus to protect the flow of political favor, they seek to suppress information that contradicts the offical mythos. Finds such as Kenniwick Man are to be destroyed and anthropologists who explore the wrong ideas are slandered.

(You mean like this woman)

Buhl Woman

Found: January 1989, at a gravel quarry near Buhl, Idaho
Age: 10,600 years
Discoverers: highway workers
Significance: Having been reburied by Shoshone-Bannock tribes in 1991 before thorough study could occur, Buhl Woman underscores scientists' fears of losing access to ancient Paleoindian skeletons.

Dead before she turned 21, this young woman found a final resting place in a gravel bar beside the Snake River, where windblown sand and silt slowly covered her body. Her right cheek lay atop a pressure-flaked, pointed obsidian tool, perhaps made specially as a grave gift.

In life, Buhl Woman ate abundant bison and elk, as well as salmon heading upriver to spawn. Sloping surfaces and heavily worn enamel on her teeth — unusual for someone so young — indicate that her diet included frequent doses of sand or grit, as if her meat had been pounded or stoneground into a jerky.

Lines of interrupted growth on her thigh bone tell of stress from illness or malnutrition during childhood, but she grew to a height of 5'2" and otherwise enjoyed good health. What caused her death remains unknown.

(She is/was believed to be related to Kennewick Man).The Americans Indians, as we know them today, were not here prior to 4,000BC (six thousand years ago)

They are mythologized as a people living in harmony with each other and with nature; that all was good until the evil White man arrived. In their myth, Paradise is lost in 1492. Stories of "others" get in the way of that tale.

your point is well taken. when it suits people to use darwin's third claim in their theory of evolution (survival of the fittest), they do so. when it is not politically expedient to so do, then victimhood is played out to its fullest.